Hidden inside cresting sit cresting and cringest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cresting and cringest tie for the highest Scrabble score from cresting at 11 points. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cresting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cresting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cresting and cringest, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cresting produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resting. For points, the strongest play is cringes — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cresting turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicest, singer, string, and tigers. For points, the strongest plays are cering, cringe, and gestic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cresting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cries, nicer, rents, rices, rings, and risen. For points, the strongest play is genic — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cresting produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, gets, ices, nest, nets, nice, and rent. For points, the strongest play is cigs — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cresting turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, ice, its, net, rig, set, and sin. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cresting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cresting and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cresting is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
cresting is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cresting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cresting and cringest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cresting earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in cresting produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.